During a New York City snowstorm, a union lawyer is placed in protective custody as a witness to graft, a working girl is slipping out-of-towners a mickey and painting them blue, a Federal Inspector is auditing the Department books, the mob plans an invasion of headquarters, and patrolmen have a strike meeting.

The Day New York Turned Blue

During a heat wave, Chief Clifford is called away and leaves Sgt. Broadhurst in charge. A football gambling ring that scores with ""inside dope on injuries"" loses a little black book and begins eliminating witnesses in a search for it, leading to an assault on precinct headquarters.

This Must Be the Alamo

A peer of the realm, who's a photographer as well as a cat burglar, comes to America and, in flagrante delicto at a Long Island costume party, witnesses a killing at the hands of Irish bombers, all of which sends McCloud to Blighty, where the target remains to be found.

London Bridges

McCloud is assigned to a film shoot, and suspects the production is a front.

The Gang That Stole Manhattan

After hanging his Stetson in a diner one night, McCloud is stymied by various attempts to relieve him of it. His clues lead to a ballet company on the verge of folding, and a philanthropic foundation with millions of dollars missing from its account books.

The Man with the Golden Hat

In the second "Alamo" episode, Phyllis Norton, in her last appearance, takes over the station when Chief Clifford catches the flu, a thief kidnaps Broadhurst in order to swap him for the thief's brother, a drug-addicted mother kidnaps her addicted newborn daughter - and a time bomb ticks in the squad room ceiling.

Return to the Alamo

As part of a pilot program, McCloud is assigned a female partner, and the two go undercover against a big-time auto theft ring.

The Park Avenue Rustlers

Modern-day cattle rustlers ship lethally contaminated beef to New York.

The Colorado Cattle Caper

The international drug trade and a dealer named Harry Hague have McCloud undercover and in prison to root out the Rhigas family of distributors.

The Concrete Jungle Caper

McCloud helps a runaway and her baby, amidst a curious stolen property investigation.

The Barefoot Girls of Bleecker Street

A black gang infiltrating a white ethnic gang's numbers racket makes four very big mistakes, in ascending order of importance: robbing and killing a pickup man for his bets and the numbers; shooting Broadhurst (knocking him out of the episode after the first scene) when he tries to interfere; framing the unconscious Broadhurst for skimming money from the numbers runners; and depriving a VERY well-connected Jewish tailor of his winnings.

Shivaree on Delancy Street

Chris Coughlin's high-rise apartment building is torched by an arsonist for hire.

Fire!

On Christmas Eve, an assassin stalks McCloud, a spurned mistress attempts suicide, a sidewalk Santa turns mugger, junkies raid a hospital pharmacy, Chris's newspaper organizes a party for orphans at Westside Hospital with Chief Clifford as Santa, and the junkies take hostages.

'Twas the Fight Before Christmas...

An ambitious junior executive in the mob uses fashion models to transport heroin into New York.

Showdown at the End of the World

The NYPD demonstrates a bank robbery on live closed-circuit TV, and is bushwhacked by a gang of antiquated outlaws.

Butch Cassidy Rides Again

A woman pursues the hit man who killed her sister, and in Mexico City is pursued herself.

Lady on the Run

A TV commentator's critique of police shootings tarnishes the department's stakeout squad, and Chris Coughlin is threatened to force the release of a murder suspect extradited to Taos by McCloud.

The New Mexican Connection

While answering a high-rise apartment burglary call, McCloud stumbles on a body, which then disappears. The case leads to a VIP madam under indictment, whose girls are apparently being murdered by a serial killer.

The Solid Gold Swingers

A football player from Ohio who needs an operation goes to find the New York mobster who owes him money.

Top of the World, Ma!

A dying Roman mobster wills his ""Saracen Horse,"" a jewel-encrusted green jade treasure, to any of his criminal colleagues who can take possession of it.

The Million Dollar Round Up

Just before presenting a rackets case, Chief Clifford goes to Hawaii for a police conference. Taos sends McCloud, too, and the Marshal is obliged to dragoon a vacationing N.Y. policewoman when the Chief is set up on a murder charge.

A Cowboy in Paradise

Loan sharks accidentally kill a welcher, and a hardnosed Homicide lieutenant has the wrong man.

Sharks!

Paroled bank robbers from New Mexico think McCloud took off with their $400,000 twelve years before. They kidnap Chris Coughlin, shoot two FBI agents with McCloud's .45 Colt Frontier Six Shooter, and force him back to Taos after the money.

Three Guns for New York

The American mob plans an Australian expansion, with the help of a planted Chairman on Sydney's Police Board. McCloud, on airport duty at JFK, has a shootout with a hit man and goes to Sydney as a witness.

Night of the Shark

The State Department sends Chief Clifford and McCloud to Moscow with a touring country & western singer, undercover.

The Moscow Connection

McCloud complains about his assignment to rodeo detail, so Chief Clifford sends him to Special Auxiliary Force VI under the command of Sgt. Dameron, where he works to catch a murderer in Central Park.

Murder Arena (2) (or Walk in the Dark)

A nabob is menaced by a professional killer with an unknown employer.

The Disposal Man

A bevy of international stewardesses have a second career as cat burglars.

The Barefoot Stewardess Caper

McCloud's lackluster assignments make him grouse, so Chief Clifford sends him to the Mounted Unit. A fence sets up a munitions theft at a National Guard Armory (USMC) for a revolutionary group, and the cavalry is on its way.

The 42nd Street Cavalry

Park Avenue Pirates

Murder victims are found to be drained of blood, and an elderly star of vampire films is suspected; Chief Clifford is on the hunt for a random sniper.

McCloud Meets Dracula

The Chief (Clifford) is running a weekly bull session, that is, the detectives squawk and he gives them a talk. McCloud notices smoke signals coming from a nearby roof. The Chief (Stillwater) is seeking his grandson Johnny, who has followed a gang of thieves to New York. Johnny's father is in jail back home in Phoenix, framed by the gang.

Showdown at Times Square

McCloud is framed for the murder of a drug-dealing hack, and exposes the ring.

The Great Taxicab Stampede

The wife of an astrologer and widely-syndicated newspaper columnist is kidnapped in broad daylight.

Encounter with Aries

A Broadway producer is implicated in the murder of a detective investigating his business practices.

Give My Regrets to Broadway

McCloud, whose new-found celebrity (thanks to an article by Chris Coughlin in the Chronicle) vexes the Department, is assigned to protect a British theatrical maven who has received letters assailing his ""filthy, obscene"" productions and threatening his life.

Manhattan Manhunt (2) (or The Stage Is All the World)

An industrial engineer is thought to have been died in an air crash, and his secretary is driven into a mental hospital.

Somebody's Out to Get Jennie

A musician is framed for the killing of his teacher, a violinist whose long-lost brother was in the mob.

Fifth Man in a String Quartet

A patrolman's daughter is held captive in the Middle East.

Our Man in the Harem

The head of a trucking company is killed before eyewitnesses, and McCloud's girlfriend is the culprit.

Bonnie and McCloud

McCloud escorts a witness from New Mexico to New York City, but loses him to kidnappers and finds himself in a murder case involving Puerto Rican nationalists, a lady novelist, a Wall Street lawyer, and a dead beauty pageant winner.

Portrait of a Dead Girl (or Who Killed Miss U.S.A.?)

McCloud goes to help a lady in distress, but gets caught in a shootout that sends him back to Taos on Chief Clifford's orders. At the last minute, the Chief is kidnapped to force McCloud to act as a courier to Paris.

Man from Taos (1) (or Who Says You Can't Make Friends in New York City?)

McCloud is becoming famous thanks to press coverage. It doesn't endear him to the boys in blue, who have to deal with a string of drugstore holdups.

Manhattan Manhunt (1) (or Horse Stealing on Fifth Avenue)

McCloud is assigned to shepherd the cowboys at a visiting rodeo. They're old friends, and one of them is killed by a jealous rival over a woman, it appears.

Murder Arena (1) (or The Concrete Corral)

Stolen penicillin is diluted and sent south of the border by the director of a famous cemetery.

A Little Plot at Tranquil Valley

In Paris, McCloud and a stewardess try to locate a mysterious arms smuggler with ties to an American mogul and a New York gubernatorial candidate.

Man from Taos (2) (or Our Man in Paris)

Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico is assigned to the metropolitan New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a special investigator.

All Episodes of McCloud

Season 1

Murder Arena (2) (or Walk in the Dark)

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/1970

Manhattan Manhunt (2) (or The Stage Is All the World)

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/1970

Portrait of a Dead Girl (or Who Killed Miss U.S.A.?)

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/17/1970

Man from Taos (1) (or Who Says You Can't Make Friends in New York City?)

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1970

Manhattan Manhunt (1) (or Horse Stealing on Fifth Avenue)

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1970

Murder Arena (1) (or The Concrete Corral)

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1970

Man from Taos (2) (or Our Man in Paris)

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/21/1970